Wordie: Lobotomy: Comments

Comment by seanahan, about 1 year ago

Sun, 03 Jun 2007 00:05:06 +0000

The "bottle in front of me" line is a classic example of chiasmus.

Fri, 02 Mar 2007 11:15:38 +0000

Dorothy Parker, I believe.

Fri, 02 Mar 2007 10:25:19 +0000

Hey, my dad's older than Tom Waits! And he's pithy, too!

Fri, 02 Mar 2007 10:20:13 +0000

No, this song/saying is WAY older than Tom Waits. Although he did say it most pithily.

Fri, 02 Mar 2007 10:18:01 +0000

What? Tom Waits?? All this time I thought it was my dad. ;-)

Fri, 02 Mar 2007 09:47:25 +0000

"I'd rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy."

--attributed to Tom Waits, I believe